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The G20’s promise to pursue inclusive and sustainable growth is welcome, but its response to the Ebola crisis is dangerously inadequate.

Australia must show leadership at the G20 Summit by pledging support for poor nations struggling to manage climate risk, according to key development and environmental leaders from the C20. Responding to today’s $US3 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund from United States President Barack Obama, C20 Chair and World Vision Chief Executive Tim Costello […]

US President points to dangers of inequality   US President Barack Obama has yet again pointed out the dangers of inequality in his speech at the University of Queensland. “Economic inequality and extreme poverty are a recipe for instability,” the President said in his speech. Oxfam International Chief Executive Winnie Byanyima said his words echoed […]

World leaders taking their seats at the G2O Brisbane Summit today must heed the call to pull together and act now to stop Ebola, before it’s too late.

The Prime Minister Tony Abbott, along with Barack Obama, David Cameron and four other world leaders are on patrol at Southbank today and responsible for saving people drowning in the rising tide of inequality. Well, sort of. International aid and development agency Oxfam will today use their famous political leader ‘big heads’ dressed as lifeguards […]

Oxfam has today welcomed comments from Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey that the G20 needs to crack down on tax dodging if nations want to reduce poverty and turn rising inequality around.

Nine of the G20 countries have failed to deliver adequate support in the fight against Ebola, and summit host Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is yet to grasp the full economic significance of the outbreak, Oxfam said today.

Oxfam reaction to OECD’s roadmap to include developing countries in international tax reform More developing countries are set to become involved in reforming the global tax system in an effort to ensure that multinational corporations are taxed where their real economic activities take place. This is according to a new roadmap presented by the Organisation […]

   Oxfam will be in Brisbane and commenting on issues, including the following – Inequality – Oxfam is calling on the G20 to address inequality in the Brisbane Action Plan. Inequality is a serious and growing global problem that affects the pace and sustainability of economic growth and derails poverty alleviation. Global tax reform – […]

G20 Leaders meeting in Brisbane, Australia this weekend (15 and 16 November) are being urged to tackle rising inequality head-on or risk leaving millions of people trapped in poverty, as new figures reveal the wealth disparity in a number of G20 countries. Oxfam’s report ahead of the G20, Turn the Tide, reveals that since the […]